Abstract
On December 8th and 9th 2007 the summit of African and European leaders has hold in Lisbon. It is the second ever Summit between heads of states and governments from EU and Africa after the Cairo Summit in 2000. The 52 countries of the African Union, the 27 European member states, and the kingdom of Morocco attended it last week-end to settle a new Euro-African agreement in a summit that is both addressing the issues of trade, debt, political issues, peace building and conflict prevention, and development. We will especially focus on this last issue. The today's EU is the first trade power in the world. It owns one quarter of the world wealth and, furthermore, is in first place in the world, as far as public development aid to poor countries is concerned. Today's Africa is often quoted as the last poor continent in the world. It is constituted with 53 countries which present very various states of development.
